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29-07-2009, 13:53
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S/V rubber ducky
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: heading "south"
Boat: Hunter 410
Posts: 20,362
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Boat Lust - Is This a Sin?
I've only had my boat for 4 months and already find myself lusting after others. Is this a deadly sin?
Yes the other boats are prettier, younger, and maybe tighter with thier sleek curves. But hey my current one is old and proven! I could spend alot of extra cash on the new lust keeping it happy enough to allow me to ride it. But of course in time it is going to get ugly, older, and start to sag to point that I go lusting for another again. Or I could spend less and just get the one I have now face lifted and prettied up, but it would still know what it is and wouldn't mind an old worn out guy riding it.
Oh what to do
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29-07-2009, 13:59
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: At sea
Boat: Gullfstar 50
Posts: 124
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors vessel. (Jonah 4:20)
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Dune
'Endeavor to Persevere'
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29-07-2009, 14:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Cruising in Caribbean
Boat: Bruce Roberts 45ft Monohull
Posts: 39
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dune
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors vessel. (Jonah 4:20)
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Yeah and look what happened to JONAH !!
You go right ahead and LUST (have a WHALE of a time)
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29-07-2009, 14:19
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Boat: 1976 Sabre 28-2
Posts: 7,505
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Every time a bunch of cruisers got together, the 'Next Boat' topic always came up. All boats are compromises and all of us like to dream what would be our favorite compromise. No, lusting after other boats is not a sin, it's normal.
Aloha
Peter O.
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29-07-2009, 14:30
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Skagit City, WA
Posts: 25,453
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It's amazing.... while I have my current boat, I feel like I know exactly what my new wishes are and what things I want on it. Then when it comes down to really deciding... well... it's the same decisions/compromises every time! The one thing I hope to someday get straight is never, ever, ever think doing that list of obvious things is going to be easy!. Buy one as ready to sail as possible, even at a $ penalty, and sail!! (unless of course what you really want to be is a boat mechanic)
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29-07-2009, 15:12
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
Posts: 10,406
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You got it bad...usually its a seven year itch.
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Life begins where land ends.
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29-07-2009, 15:18
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
Boat: Catalina 34 - "Points North"
Posts: 493
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Boat Porn
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29-07-2009, 17:51
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S/V rubber ducky
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: heading "south"
Boat: Hunter 410
Posts: 20,362
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If my boat smells that boat on my clothes I'm going to have to sleep out on the deck tonight!
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29-07-2009, 18:05
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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HA!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dune
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors vessel. (Jonah 4:20)
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funniest thing I've ever read on this site.
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cruising is entirely about showing up--in boat shoes.
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29-07-2009, 18:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
Boat: Catalina 34 - "Points North"
Posts: 493
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Lucas
If my boat smells that boat on my clothes I'm going to have to sleep out on the deck tonight!
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They always know...
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09-08-2009, 18:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Seattle, WA
Boat: Island Packet 35 #81
Posts: 72
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No sin, but.................
Boat Lust is like anyother kind of lust, expensive.
Ante up, Cowboy.
DW
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09-08-2009, 20:09
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: On the boat - Carib, Chesapeake
Boat: 58 Taswell AS
Posts: 1,139
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The Maltese Falcon sold for only 100m with an asking price of 180m. Mines for sale for alot less.
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10-08-2009, 03:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: FL
Boat: Far East Mariner 40
Posts: 652
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We try to never talk about a newer or bigger boat while on Tivoli, and if we do we are careful to let her know she is the boat for us. No sense tempting fate... remember Steve Kings "Christine".
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10-08-2009, 07:12
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Homer, AK is my home port
Boat: Skookum 53'
Posts: 4,042
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To thine own vessel be true!
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